Greater Manchester Stop the War Meetings and Time to Go are supported by

To have your meeting listed here please email demonstrate@mancsagainsttanks.org
DATE
EVENT
Monday
18
September

ONE LAST PUSH
Stop the War Campaign Stall - Market Street< Manchester
4.30 - 6pm
Help out on the stall &/or pick up leaflets/posters etc
Tuesday
19
September
ONE LAST PUSH
Stop the War Campaign Stall - Market Street< Manchester
4.30 - 6pm
Help out on the stall &/or pick up leaflets/posters etc
Tuesday
19
September
until Friday
22
September
The Trans-Pennine March for Peace
Sheffield - Banford - Chapel-en-le-Frith - Glossop - Manchester
For more details phone 07761 471 441

Meet and greet the marchers on Friday evening at Albert Square from 5.00pm
Wednesday
20
September
ONE LAST PUSH
Stop the War Campaign Stall - Market Street< Manchester
4.30 - 6pm
Help out on the stall &/or pick up leaflets/posters etc
Thursday
21
September

AN ANTI-WAR EVENING organised by MMU UCU
Film Showing
‘Sir! No,Sir!’
Introduced by Ron Senchak (Vietnam vet) and a speaker from Military Families Against the War

Sir! No Sir! A Film About The Gi Movement Against The War In Vietnam. This is the story of one of the most vibrant and widespread upheavals of the 1960's–one that had profound impact on American society, yet has been virtually obliterated from the collective memory of that time.

Thursday 21st September @ 5pm
Room 342, Geoffrey Manton Building,
All Saints Campus, MMU

Thursday
21
September
until Saturday
23
September

MILITARY FAMILIES PEACE CAMP
MEET THE CAMPERS FROM 3.00pm

Military Families Against the War will host a Peace Camp to coincide with September's TIME TO GO demonstration at the Labour conference in Manchester.

• The camp will begin in Albert Square at 3pm on Thursday 21st September.
• Open to all who want to show their support for our campaign to get the troops home.
• Please publicise the Peace Camp, tell your family and friends, post the details on web forums or groups.
• If you would like to take part in the peace camp contact us at peacecamp@mfaw.org.uk
• Please donate to our Peace Camp fund.

Send cheques made payable to Military Families Against the War,
27 Britannia St, London WC1X 9JP or CLICK HERE
Thursday
21
September
THE BRITISH-LIBYAN SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN

MEETING THURSDAY 21st SEPTEMBER,7.00 PM

THE UNITY CENTRE, 492 CLAREMONT ROAD, RUSHOLME, MANCHESTER

The British Libyan Solidarity Campaign is calling all its supporters to attend a meeting on Thursday evening to organise for the “Time to Go” demonstration on Saturday 23rd September.

Stand in solidarity with the Libyan people on Human Rights issues in Libya and Britain and tell the hypocrite Blair that collaboration with Dictators to secure oil deals wasn’t justifiable in Iraq and isn’t justifiable in Libya!!!

Speakers: ABU-BAKER DEGAHAYES The brother of Guantanamo prisoner Omar Deghayes
AZELDIN EL SHARIF President of the Libyan-British Solidarity Campaign

Friday
22
September

BIKES not BOMBS!
Cycle from London to Manchester to Demonstrate at the Labour Party Conference
LEAFLET HERE

Meet the cyclists for a critical mass ride - bring your bikes to Albert Square from 4.00pm for mass cycle at 5.30pm
Saturday
23
September

National Stop the War and CND Demonstration
TIME TO GO!
Troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan
Don't attack Iran
No Trident replacement
SATURDAY 23 SEPTEMBER
ASSEMBLE 1pm, Albert Square, MANCHESTER

"Manchester Quakers will be holding a peace vigil on the steps of their Meeting House, Mount Street from 12 noon and will welcome all peace makers to join in this act of silent witness"
Sunday
24
September
Stop the War Aletrnative Conference
10.30 am - 6.00 pm Roscoe Building, University of Manchester, Brunswick Street, Manchester M13 9PL

Labour Party conferences under the Blair regime are rigidly ciontrolled and stage-managed. When 80 year old Walter Wolfgang heckled then foreign secretary Jack Straw last year with the single word "Nonsense", he was manhandled out of the conference hall by security guards.

This year, Stop the War has organised an alternative conference, the day after the TIME TO GO demonstration at which there will be genuine discussion and debate.

Speakers include:
•Tariq Ali, •Dr Richard Horton (Editor, The Lancet), •John Rees (Respect Coalition), •Azzam Tamimi, (Institute of Islamic Political Thought), •Jeremy Corbyn MP, •Craig Murray (Ex-UK Ambassador, Uzbekistan), •Yvonne Ridley (Islam Channel), •Dave Crouch (Media Workers Against the War), •Lindsey German (Convenor, Stop the War Coalition)

Sunday
24
September
Labour Against the War fringe meeting
7pm: Friends Meeting House, 6 Mount Street, Manchester.
Chair: Alan Simpson MP.
Speakers include Tony Benn and Walter Wolfgang.
Full details to follow when available.
Monday
25
September
COALITION AGAINST THE WELFARE REFORM BILL (CAWRB)

Stroll, Roll and Rally against the Welfare Reforms at the Manchester Labour Party Conference.

Stroll/Roll: Assemble 3pm at Exchange Square, opposite Arndale Centre, on Corporation St (click for map).

Rally/Static Protest: 4 pm G-MEX centre on Lower Mosley St, outside the Labour Party Conference (click for map). People who can't do the Stroll/Roll are welcome to just turn up for the rally and static protest.

Labour Party Conference Fringe Meeting and CAWRB Launch: 8PM Novatel Hotel, Portland St (Chetham Suite)

PUBLICISE!
Download the flyer - 496kb adobe PDF
Download the poster - 464kb adobe PDF
Monday
25
September

Hands off Venezuela
Public Meeting at 12.30pm till 2.00pm

Friends Meeting House, Mount Street, Manchester
speakers include John McDonnell MP
Monday
25
September
Unite to STOP the BNP
Monday 25 September, 5.30pm
Cross St. Chapel, Cross St, Manchester M2 ANL
Organised by Unite Against Fascism
Speakers include: Ken Livingstone, Billy Hayes, Communication Workers Union General Secretary, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Coronation Street actor tbc, Bob Abberley UNISON Assistant General Secretary, Sadie Khan MP, Henry Guterman MBE, Glyn Ford MEP, Mohammed Azam, North West Unite Against Fascism, Lee Jasper, National Assembly Against Racism, Sabby Dhalu, Unite Against Fascism
Monday
25
September
ASYLUM SEEKERS BRING THE WAR BACK HOME TO THE LABOUR PARTY!
LOBBY OF HAZEL BLEARS MP
STEPS OF MANCHESTER TOWN HALL 5PM-6PM MONDAY SEPTEMBER 25TH
THE SAMINA ALTAF CAMPAIGN WILL BE PICKETING GOVERNMENT MINISTERS THROUGHOUT THE WEEK OF THE LABOUR PARTY CONFERENCE.
SAMINA AND HER FAMILY INVITE EVERYONE ELSE UNDER THREAT OF DEPORTATION AND ALL OTHER CAMPAIGNS TO JOIN THEM ON THE FIRST PICKET THIS MONDAY AT 5pm. BRING BANNERS!
COME ON THE 25TH AND HEAR ABOUT ALL OTHER PICKETS PLANNED
Monday
25
September

Refugee Council / Amnesty / UNHCR Refugee Charities Reception
Liam Byrne MP (tbc), Kate Allen Director of Amnesty International UK, Bemma Donkoh UNHCR
Maeve Sherlock Refugee Council

5.30 – 7.30 Friends Meeting House
Monday
25
September

Electoral Reform Society
Treating a sick democracy: Sticking Plaster or Long Term Cure?
Lord Falconer, Constitutional Affairs Minister, Fiona MacTaggart MP, Johann Hari, journalist and commentator,
Ken Ritchie, Chief Exec ERS

6.15 pm – 7.45pm Friends Meeting House
Tuesday
26
September

Palestine Solidarity/War on Want
Crisis in Palestine: Peace & Justice in Lebanon and Palestine
Richard Burden MP, Richard Howitt MEP, Professor Manuel Hassassian, PLO Representative in London, Louise Richards, War on Want, Tony Benn, Shimri Zammeret, Israeli Refusenik (TBC)
Chair: Betty Hunter, Palestine Solidarity Campaign

12.30 –2pm Friends Meeting House
Tuesday
26
September
JOINT CND/STWC PUBLIC MEETING
Tuesday 26th September 7pm
Methodist Central Hall, Oldham Street, Manchester
TROOPS OUT OF IRAQ
DON'T ATTACK IRAN
Speakers include: Tony Benn, Walter Wolfgang (Labour Party NEC), Craig Murray, Roudabeh Shafie (Action Iran), Lindsey German (STWC), Kate Hudson (CND)
Tuesday
26
September

Keep our NHS Public
NHS Market Reform: What's the Alternative?
Rt Hon Frank Dobson MP, John McDonnell MP, Neal Lawson -Compass, Debbie Abrahams - deputy director, IMPACT, Liverpool University/ former chair of
Rochdale PCT, Dr Alex Scott Samuel - Public Health academic, campaigner and writer

6pm – 8pm Mechanics Institute, 103 Princess Street

Wednesday
27
September

Rally of Resistance: Peterloo2
Day of action for peace and social justice

Assemble, 1.00pm, St Peter's Square, Manchester
Organised by Manchester Stop the Warmongers. www.stopthewarmongers.org
download a leaflet (rtf) CLICK HERE
Wednesday
27
September
Bush's plan for Cuba: how should the UK/Europe respond?
12.45 - 2pm, Bar 38, Peter Street, Manchester
Chair: Dr Ian Gibson MP. Speakers: Colin Burgon MP;
Rene Mujica Cantelar, Cuban Ambassador; Diana Holland,
National Organiser, TGWU (tbc); Robert Evans MEP
Buffet lunch, Havana Club Rum cocktails and refreshments
Organised by the Cuba Solidarity Campaign
Download a leaflet CLICK HERE
Wednesday
27
September

Defend Council Housing
'Fourth Option for Council Housing'
Austin Mitchell MP, Frank Dobson MP, Michael Meacher MP,
Jon Cruddas MP, Jack Dromey, T&G Deputy General Secretary, Alan Ritchie, UCATT General Secretary, Heather Wakefield, UNISON National Secretary, Gail Cartmail, Amicus Assistant General Secretary
Chair: Alan Walter, Defend Council Housing

6pm – 8pm Friends Meeting House
Thursday
28
September
100 years of immigration law: 1905 – 2005

You are invited to a special Immigration Law Practitioners Assoction/Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit/ South Manchester Law Centre event

6.00 – 8.30 pm at the Mechanics Institute, 103 Princess Street,
Manchester M1 6DD

Speakers will include:
Steve Cohen - No one is illegal
Don Flynn - Migrants’ Rights Network
Rick Scannell - ILPA
Ian Macdonald QC - ILPA

There will be time for discussion. RECEPTION AND BOOK LAUNCH:

All participants are invited to stay for the reception at which Steve Cohen’s book ‘Standing on the Shoulders of Fascism from immigration control to the strong state’ will be launched. Book details:
http://www.trentham-books.co.uk/pages/shoulders.htm
Book order form: http://www.asylumpolicy.info/shoulders.doc